Quotes About Character

To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' Character who said it in novel: Salvor Hardin

Absolute terror seemed paradoxically to have lent a lucidity to her thoughts and words that was entirely out of character.

Con toda seguridad es preferible que el inmoral aprenda la moral a través de la adversidad, a que el moral olvide serlo en la prosperidad.

The times make the man

He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It's the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that's why they get noticed.

Vârsta în sine nu îi face pe oameni mai buni sau mai înÈ›elepÈ›i, ci doar înt?reÈ™te tr?s?turile pe care aceÈ™tia le-au avut dintotdeauna.

that in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

El que es un miserable no se vuelve generoso con los años...se vuelve más miserable.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

You must see a psychiatrist, son, she often suggested, and get help with your problems; you can overcome the flaws in your character; but Timothy's response was that without the flaws he would not have any character left.

Parece que todos los hombres de su familia han sido de buen corazón, Alma. Hay poca gente así en este mundo. - Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

Hasta ese momento no tenía conciencia cabal de su doble personalidad, por una parte Diego de la Vega, elegante, melindroso, hipocondríaco, y por otra el Zorro, audaz, atrevido, juguetón. Suponía que en algún punto entremedio estaba su verdadero carácter, pero no sabía cómo era, si ninguno de los dos, o la suma de ambos.

Sólo se reía de buena gana con Marcelo, de sus patas cortas y su cara de lémur; ese animal se daba el lujo de ser narcisista y gruñón, como un marido.

in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.

Imi plac tesaturile, culorile, machiajul si rutina de a ma aranja in fiecare dimineata, cu toate ca majoritatea timpului il petrec inchisa in mansarda si scriind. Nu ma vede nimeni, dar ma vad eu spunea filozofic maica-mea, si nu se referea doar la aspectul fizic, ci si la trasaturile profunde de caracter si comportament.

No bastaba con caminar erguido y disimular el cansancio, también se cuidaba de tantos otros síntomas de la edad: avaricia, desconfianza, mal humor, resentimiento y malos hábitos, como dejar de afeitarse a diario, repetir las mismas anécdotas, hablar de sí mismo, de enfermedades o dinero.

l'età di per sè non rende nessuno migliore e più saggio, semplicemente accentua ciò che si èsempre stati.

There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.